Below is a link to a PDF of CECO's 1976 report La lutte au crime organisé au Québec : Commission de police du Québec : rapport d'enquête sur le crime organisé et recommandations. "CECO" was the initialism for Commission d'enquête sur le crime organisé, which was established in 1972. The English name for CECO was "Commission of Inquiry on Organized Crime." This PDF is 419 pages; the file size is 37.5 MB.

https://www.ceic.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/centre_documentaire/CEIC-R-2401.pdf


Should I ever find a PDF of the English-language counterpart report -- The fight against organized crime in Québec: Québec Police Commission: report of the Commission of Inquiry on Organized Crime and Recommendations -- I will post a link in this thread.

For those of you who, like me, can muddle through French and are interested in the discussion in the 1970s about whether the Montreal Mafia / Cotroni-Violi organization was its own distinct "family," look at the report pages 97–109 of the file (look at the report pages, not the PDF page number). You might also consider some of the information in those pages to be support for the argument that Paolo Violi and Nick Rizzuto Sr. were members of the Bonanno Family in New York, not members of the 'ndrangheta and Sicilian Cosa Nostra respectively.

I agree that they were members of the Bonanno family and there is no dispute about that but I also believe they were members of the Ndrangheta and Sicilian mafia respectively.

I don't think each was simultaneously a made member in two secret societies. Assuming that both were made in Italy--and that in itself is a very big assumption--they would have required permission to transfer to the Bonanno Family.

Violi and Rizzuto Sr. were some of the most well-connected Canadian mafiosi ever; so while I think that they were inducted into the Bonanno Family at some point after arriving and settling in Canada, we also know that their careers were enhanced by very important respective connections to the 'ndrangheta and Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

This thread is as good a place as any to discuss whether dual membership exists or is possible, especially because the debate often comes up in relation to members of Canadian mafia groups.

Agreed with antimafia. For a long time I thought that the Rizzutos had dual membership, but I no longer believe that. However, Rizzuto, Sr. was active for many years in the Mafia in Sicily before he went to Canada and he was married into Mafia royalty. I still think it is likely that he was already a made member when he went overseas and then transfered over to the Bonannos. His son Vito was without a doubt made into the Bonanno family.

When the mob war in Montreal reached its height I was saving up every article about it and also some of earlier years as I recall. But it will be quite thin compared to what is available now. Information on the internet was still limited in the early 2000s. At some point I stopped keeping up with it so I have very few articles saved of the more recent conflict.

I'll get the ball rolling by posting a link to a French-language blog post dated yesterday (August 13, 2017). The blog post concerns the shocking triple murder in 1971 at the Casa Loma establishment in Montreal, in particular Jos Di Maulo's involvement and his testimony.

Link:

https://historiquementlogique.com/2017/08/13/casa-loma-le-temoignage-de-jos-di-maulo-13/

Based on the headline on the above page, there may be two more blog posts forthcoming on this subject. Stay tuned.

https://historiquementlogique.com/2017/08/27/casa-loma-le-temoignage-de-jos-di-maulo-33/

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